Name That Trauma :: Kinderpal Absinthe of Gloomy Sunday on a Girl Drawn and Quartered by a Big Rig

I came in on my father watching a movie and sat down with him. I was coming in mid-movie so I don’t know the whole plot but there was a guy and his girlfriend and a psycho bad guy that was after them. The bad guy kidnaps the girlfriend and the hero goes after her, he catches up to them in some kind of parking lot at night. The girl is now chained to the back of a huge semi truck by her legs – her arms are chained to some kind of fence or pipe coming out of the ground. Bad guy watches it all from his side mirror and keeps laughing, smiling and revving the engine of the truck. Good guy is pleading with him and finally tries to get closer to free his girlfriend, bad guy stomps on the gas and the truck screeches away amidst the girl’s screams. Now they didn’t show the scene of her getting yanked apart, they just cut to the bad guy and the good guy but I was so bothered by the whole thing.

I kept asking my dad, “Is she okay, what happened to her, he didn’t pull her arms off right?”

My dad finally told me to go and play in my room so I never saw the end of that movie but I had dreams later of that same scene and it has haunted me all this time.

UNK SEZ: This grizzly act can only be the work of RUTGER HAUER! Absinthe, your pop must have been watching 1986’s THE HITCHER. What a crazy scene huh? I’m still kind of shocked. That was JENNIFER JASON LEIGH getting yanked apart and C.THOMAS HOWELL was the guy who had to stand by and watch it happen. It seemed good ol’ J.J.L.‘s acceptance into the final girl club was as good as written in stone, but maybe her application got lost in the mail or something. As disturbing and as counter intuitive to horror tropes as this scene is, you can be thankful that your young mind missed out on the way THE HITCHER serves up french fries…talk about finger licking good!